KGB and Napoleons Dogs











Secret Police Shooting A Victim Who is Blindfolded

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The Dogs 
  • a private army that used fear to force animals to work
  • killed or intimidated any opponent of Napoleon
  • another part of Napoleon's strategy to control animals
KGB - Secret Police
  • not really police, but forced support for Stalin
  • used force, often killed entire families for disobedience
  • totally loyal, part of Lenin's power, even over army

Secret Police

☼ The first secret police, called the Cheka, was established in December of 1917 as a temporary institution to be abolished once Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks had consolidated their power.

☼ Under Party Stalin, the secret police again acquired vast punitive powers and in 1934 was renamed the People's Comissariat for Internal Affairs, or NKVD. No longer subject to party control or restricted by law, the NKVD became a direct instrument of Stalin for use against the party and country.

☼ The secret police remained the most powerful and feared Soviet institution throughout the Stalinist period.

☼ Although the KGB no longer inflicted such large-scale purges, terror, and forced depopulation on the peoples of the Soviet Union, it continued to be used by the Kremlin leadership to suppress political and religious dissent.

☼ The head of the KGB was a key figure in resisting the democratization of the late 1980's and in organizing the attempted putsch of August of 1991.

☼ The KGB was Stalin's Secret Police

  • Leon Trotsky, a personal political enemy of Stalin and his most bitter international critic;
  • Boris Savinkov, Russian revolutionary and terrorist (Trust Operation of the GPU);
  • Yevhen Konovalets, prominent Ukrainian political and military leader.
  • Guy Leland, French anti-Soviet underground poet
  • Walter Krivitsky, NKVD defector
  • Ignace Reiss (aka Ignace Poretsky), Soviet GPU defector

These are some of Stalin's Secret Police.
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☼ Thier Job was to threaten, intimadate, and dispose of nonconforming citizens of Russia
Some times this included entire familys, children and all.

Table of Probable Estimates of the number of people Stalin and his secret police killed in each war
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References
http://econc10.bu.edu/economic_systems/Economics/Economic_History/FSU/dead_anim.gif
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=96822&title=Stalins_Secret_Police
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/secret.html
http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~sbennet3/mead/lessonplans/animalfarm.htm
http://www.milford.k12.il.us/mhssite/Students/studentproj/animal/allegoricalsymbolism/secpolicedog.htm